Review: Surviving Ice by K.A. Tucker

Oh my god! I did NOT want this series to EVER END. Can we please have more books in this series, please! I loved it that freaking much! I've raved about K.A. Tucker's Burying Water series for months now and will probably continue to rave about for many more months to come. This entire series was simply freaking fantastic and the fourth and final book in the series was just as good as the others! Each of these books; Burying Water, Becoming Rain, Chasing River, Surviving Ice can be read as stand alone novels or together as a series (which I recommend reading them together since the characters all somehow intertwine together!).

Surviving Ice by K.A. Tucker 
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Ivy Lee, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have finally found it working in her uncle’s tattoo shop in San Francisco. But all that changes when a robbery turns deadly, compelling her to pack up her things yet again.

When they need the best, they call him. That’s why Sebastian Rik

er is back in California, cleaning up the mess made after a tattoo shop owner who resorted to blackmail and got himself shot. But it’s impossible to get the answers he needs from a dead body, leaving him to look elsewhere. Namely, to the twenty-something-year-old niece who believes this was a random attack. Who needs to keep believing that until Sebastian finds what he’s searching for.

Ivy has one foot out of San Francisco when a chance encounter with a stranger stalls her departure. She’s always been drawn to intense men, so it’s no wonder that she now finds a reason to stay after all, quickly intoxicated by his dark smile, his intimidating strength, and his quiet control.

That is, until Ivy discovers that their encounter was no accident—and that their attraction could be her undoing.

My Thoughts:
*****Five Stars*****

This series finished with a bang and did not disappoint me at all! It was actually really bittersweet to read this final novel because I wasn't ready to let these characters go just yet.  I've fallen in love with every single character Tucker has created from Burying Water to Surviving Ice. She has a way of creating believable, lovable, strong, independent male and female leads for her books that I can't help but admire.

Surviving Ice follows Ivy, whom we met briefly in Bury Water and again in Chasing River; a tough as nails kick ass tattoo artist who goes wherever the wind decides to take her. I was really excited to learn more about Ivy in this book. There's a lot more to her than just her snarky sarcastic shell and we got to see her blossom more and more. I loved her no nonsense attitude and sheer willpower to do whatever she wanted. Even though she put up a tough girl act for everyone she was still human and vulnerable, especially when tragedy strikes her Uncle.

Sebastian Riker is a twenty eight year old assassin for hire; he works for a private government security firm ridding the world of evils. He knows how to work quickly and diligently. He goes unnoticed and gets the job done, trusting his superiors to make sure his targets are deserving of the punishment he hands out. When a case is forced upon him he finds himself in San Fransisco watching a beautiful young tattoo artist pick up the pieces after her Uncle's senseless murder. Sebastian is tasked with finding incriminating evidence against his government security firm before the truth gets leaked to the public.

Along the way he finds himself falling for Ivy in ways he never expected to fall for someone. She's his target after all...he can't fall in love with someone he may have to kill, can he? Two lost souls come together in this spellbinding conclusion to K.A. Tucker's romantic suspense series.

It was a pleasure to read each and every single one of these novels. I'll carry these characters with me forever. If you haven't already you should check out all of the books in this amazing, intoxicating series. You won't regret it!